On 7/9/07, Amit Varma wrote:
>
> the stossel guy comes from the point of view that the markets in the
> west are free markets
>
Er, he doesn't. In fact, he rants fairly often about how they could be
freer. His position -- and one that I agree with -- is that the closer to
free they are, the more prosperous they are bound to be.
ah .... a man with a utopian mindset... :)
unfortunately, i come from the school of thought that we are all
agents of hostility, chaos and turmoil ... so one seemingly free
balanced market, will always extract its stability from an equally
unbalanced and unfree market....
there is a free market of sorts for second hand imported cars in kenya
- you can import anything you want as long as its not more than eight
years old... so recently a large batch of toyota prius hybrids (late
1990s vintage) were imported into the country... they have become well
known because they have a habit of breaking down and going into some
system lockup where all the lights flash on-and-off and the horns and
the alarms keep going off.....and some mechanic got electrocuted while
trying to fiddle around with the mechanics of it.
Somebody in some corner of the world thinks he doing the environment a
service by driving this car - when it gets shipped to the other corner
of the world for recycling ...its completely useless.
